Market shake up hits all bar Acer 60 million netbooks are expected to ship worldwide in 2010, with double that number reaching global markets in 2013.

System76 has updated its Linux-based netbook to the Atom N455 processor as well as making it thinner and lighter.

This retail version of Dell’s Inspiron Mini 10, called the iM1012-1091OBK, is the first WiMax Netbook we’ve seen; however, that feature may not be of much use to you, depending on where you live.

In what can only be considered a huge coup for Google’s Android platform, Asus, which has struck gold with its line of inexpensive netbook computers, has dropped Windows 7 in favor of Android for its first tablet device. read more

It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost two and a half years since Pixel Qi spun off from OLPC and promised to bring its dual-mode, power efficient display to laptops, tablets, and e-readers. For those who haven’t followed our small obsession with the 3Qi screen technology (shame on you!) it promises the best of both worlds: full-color graphics in a normal LCD mode, but also the ability to …

CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif.—-MSI Computer Corp., a leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions, today announced the availability of its 3.3 pound Wind12 U230 Light notebook, with a smaller 11.6-inch high def screen than its 12.1-inch award-winning predecessor, the U230.

Despite its hesitant attitude about the netbook market previously, Hewlett-Packard (HP) has recently turned aggressive over the product line and decided to launch new netbooks equipped with Intel’s latest Atom N455 and N475 processors in the third quarter of 2010, according to sources from channel vendors.

Netbook sales growth slowed significantly amid a third consecutive quarter of double-digit growth across all PC sales and average prices declined, according to Gartner.

Netbook-cum-smartphone out next week Anyone awaiting the arrival of netbooks running Google’s Android OS so impatiently that they’ll go anywhere to get one should take a trip to Tokyo next week.

ZDNet UK takes a look at version 1.0 of a netbook-centric Linux distro that includes a launcher written in HTML 5, built-in cloud synchronisation and a smartphone-like app store